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  1. #1
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    Default X band alive and well with the NC HP!

    Unbelievable! And my first save since buying my X50 3 weeks ago.

    I'm trucking through Eastbound on I-40 and just got past the 15/501 exit. Before the exit, my x started going off like it has done every morning because of the shopping center. I never pay attention to it and why should I--I've been driving this route to and from work every day for two years and have never seen a cop anywhere near there.

    But something was wrong...the x wasn't going away as I left the area. In fact, it was get a bit stronger...then stronger. I immediately slowed down and then sure enough, I come around the curve and there's one of NC's finest sitting on the shoulder with constant on X. The Escort was screaming.

    Now, I would *like* to think he was positioned where he was to fool other radar detector users who ignore the X in that area and that I won the battle. But, I'm sure it was just coincidence.

    Anyway, I'm moving from NC in one week so I sure didn't want to get a ticket now!! Thanks Escort!!

  2. #2
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    Default thx

    Thx abe for the post about x band in use in NC. Seems to be popping up here and there down there. Keep us posted now.

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    On a trip up to Western NC this past week, I spotted what could only be called an X band "drone" car sitting right before a construction zone near Asheville. It had a K55 X band antenna clearly visible in the rear window, but there was no front antenna (traffic was slow, I got a good look) nor a visible control unit. It did have a rather strange "shelf" attached to the rear trunk lid which I suppose was used for attaching a "Your Speed Is" type sign to the rear of the car. Its probably likely that that's the primary purpose of this car.

    Every other NCHP vehicle I saw had Ka band antennas in it. Last time I was in NC back in 2002, it was almost the opposite. Most of the patrol cars had X band with a few units here and there with Ka. Probably within another 2-3 years, X band will be but a memory in NC, save for the rogue town here or there.

  4. #4
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    Bart99GT, that "shelf" you noticed on the NC SHP decoy is a solar panel to run the radar & light show.

  5. #5
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    I just came back from Raleigh on west bound 40 and X was like crazy, I turned my x50 on City mode it was so bad. Also got a laser alert once as well.

  6. #6
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    Did you notice a lot of the x-band alerts around interchanges? If so, you will notice up on the overpass bridges devices mounted to wood poles. They emit a x-band signal and are used to detect traffic sitting at the traffic signals up on the bridges. Signal detector loops are not cut into the concrete bridge decks, so these devices act as the detector loops you would usually see cut into the asphalt pavement.

    They are a pain, especially since NCSHP still runs X-band radar quite often!

    BTW- Carolina 5-0 welcome to the board!

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    Yea I did, basically after every overpass or before I got a strong X alert for like 2 seconds.

  8. #8
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    its not just the HP using X. Alot of the smaller areas that you go through will have X, I am encountering more IO x's. They use it all, HP is well known for using IO Ka.

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    I've noticed that the Sheriff's department here in Cumberland co. uses X-band almost exclusively while locals and state boys use K/Ka. I40 south of raleigh in the construction zone is a laser trap. Saw 10 state's lined up with one officer lazing and one on radio point out.

  10. #10
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    NPCCpartsman is right!

    they love dustin off them old constant on X units!

    I'm in Sanford and I run 87 north to 421 N to G'boro and over to Grubb's Marine there in Winston-Salem. Just this last Saturday on 421 I had both a X and a K alert. Both verified too via CB with S. bound trucks. (Speed trap in the hilly median - two plain brown wrappers and one mark'd crown vic).

    What I've found too is in the early eve when folks get off work and head north up 421, HP will pace targets thru the work zone there where they're widening the hwy to 4 lane. Definately a hot spot.

    When I go to Fayettenam... I have to flip my switch down to city mode... just too much X band unless on All American. (Bragg Cops use K/Ka)

 

 

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